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Independent Review of Chromium Groundwater Contamination Fails to Make Final Cleanup Recommendation

January 2, 2025May 6, 2025Chromium, Environmental Impact, LANL Chromium Plume, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico

After 20 Years Los Alamos Lab Still Doesn’t Know Size of Plume At Present Rate Cleanup Will Take More Than a Century On December 30, 2024, in the middle of...

The New Yorker: New Mexico’s Nuclear Weapons Boom

On a recent Wednesday, ten students filed into a classroom at Northern New Mexico College, in the town of Española, to learn about the dangers of nuclear radiation. The students...

Working Together, We Can Meet Enormous Challenges

December 19, 2024February 10, 2025Environmental Impact, High-level Radioactive Waste, LANL Cleanup, Modernization, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, WIPP

Dear Friends, As we look back on 2024, Nuclear Watch New Mexico hopes you had a wonderful year. We wish you peace and prosperity. Given uncertain times ahead, we are...

Santa Fe New Mexican: Is Acid Canyon clean enough? Depends who you ask

“With the help of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, [Chemist and Northern Arizona University professor emeritus] Ketterer took samples of soil, water and plants from a few locations around Acid Canyon,...

Call To Action: Stop Tritium Venting & Protect the Most Vulnerable

Searchlight NM: Plutonium just had a bad day in court

In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion...

Court Rules U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Plan Violates Federal Law

October 3, 2024November 11, 2024DOE, Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NEPA, New Mexico, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production

On September 30, United States District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled that the United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) and its semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security...

Court Rules U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Plan Violates Federal Law

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 3, 2024 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org...

The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. Making more is uncertain

Coinciding with NNSA’s announcement of the first diamond-stamped pit, a US District Court ruled that the Energy Department and the NNSA violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing...

Judge finds plutonium production plans violated environmental laws

Both sides of the case are ordered to present a joint plan to address violations by Oct. 25 One of the plaintiffs, Jay Coghlan, the executive director of Nuclear Watch...

High Detections of Plutonium in Los Alamos Neighborhood – As We Enter a New Nuclear Arms Race the Last One is Still Not Cleaned Up

August 14, 2024December 17, 2024DOE, Environmental Impact, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico, NMED, Nuclear Waste, Plutonium

In April Nuclear Watch New Mexico released a map of plutonium contamination based on Lab data. Today, Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University, is...

High Detections of Plutonium in Los Alamos Neighborhood – As We Enter a New Nuclear Arms Race the Last One is Still Not Cleaned Up

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 15, 2024 Dr. Michael Ketterer – 928.853.7188 | Email Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – In April Nuclear Watch New Mexico released...

NNSA Town Hall July 22nd – Hruby: “We have to limit the growth of Los Alamos Laboratory…”

July 25, 2024August 18, 2024Archbishop, DOE, EPA, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NNSA, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production, WIPP

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Los Alamos Field Office held a Town Hall event hosted by the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and...

Santa Fe New Mexican MY VIEW: Speak out for earth and water this Monday

BY MARIAN NARANJO AND KATHY SANCHEZ, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN | July 21, 2024 santafenewmexican.com On Monday, top officials from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of...

Your NukeWatch NM Team in DC!

May 31, 2024June 4, 2024Archbishop, Armed Services Committee, Budget, CBO, Downwinders, Environmental Justice, High-level Radioactive Waste, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, RECA, WIPP

Your Nuclear Watch New Mexico team has just returned from a weeklong trip to Washington D.C. (we went so you don’t have to!). We proudly joined the Alliance for Nuclear...

Recent Project: Plutonium Sampling at the Los Alamos National Lab

April 26, 2024May 13, 2024Nuclear Weapons

NukeWatch has recently published a project on plutonium sampling at Los Alamos National Laboratory showing plutonium migration and contamination into the groundwater at and around the lab. See more: Click...

The long path of plutonium: A new map charts contamination at thousands of sites, miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory

Plutonium hotspots appear along tribal lands, hiking trails, city streets and the Rio Grande River, a watchdog group finds “Nuclear Watch’s driving question, according to Scott Kovac, its operations and...

Briefing on Plutonium Migration at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Who: Nuclear Watch New Mexico and chemist Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University What: Nuclear Watch has mapped plutonium migration based on sampling data from Intellus,...

Los Alamos National Lab Cleanup-duplicate-DRAFT

https://nukewatch.org/interactive-map-plutonium-contamination-and-migration-around-lanl/

NNSA Delays Urgent Research on Plutonium “Pit” Aging While Spending Tens of Billions on Nuclear Weapons Bomb Core Production

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 17, 2024 Tom Clements, SRS Watch – 803.240.7268 | Email Scott Yundt, TVC – 415.990.2070 | Email Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Nearly three years...

Jay Coghlan/NukeWatch NM Letter to the Editor: Santa Fe Reporter March 20, 2024

March 20, 2024May 6, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NNSA, Plutonium Pit Production

By Jay Coghlan, The Santa Fe Reporter | sfreporter.com EFF Designer Hannah Diaz Cover, March 13: “The Foilies” THE GREATEST FOILIE OF ALL The Reporter should stick around in its own back yard for...

NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Budget Takes Huge Jump

March 11, 2024April 9, 2024Biden Administration, Budget, LANL Cleanup, Plutonium Pit Production

Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut Ironically the day after the film Oppenheimer was awarded multiple Oscars, the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security...

NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Budget Takes Huge Jump

Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 11, 2024 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Ironically the day...

DOE/NNSA budget numbers from FY 2024 Energy and Water Agreement

March 8, 2024March 8, 2024Biden Administration, Budget, Nuclear Policy

Some DOE/NNSA budget numbers from FY 2024 Energy and Water Agreement https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240304/FY24%20EW%20Conference%20JES%20scan.pdf President must sign by Friday March 8 to avoid a partial government shutdown, including DOE and NNSA. Lowlights:...

The reawakening of America’s nuclear dinosaurs

Are America’s plutonium pits too old to perform in the new Cold War? Or are new ones necessary? “To look at short-term change [in plutonium pits], scientists have created experiments...